I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading... →
Helen Oyeyemi
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we... →
Ruth Ozeki
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is.... →
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.
Cynthia Ozick
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I... →
I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal... →
Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.
Chuck Palahniuk
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture... →